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I lived at Reighton Gap from early 1948 to 1951. The picture of the shop brings back many memories as I worked in it  aged 11 during the summer school holidays. My jobs were to handle the dirty jobs, handling of potatoes, ...Read more

A memory of Reighton in 1948 by Frank Archer

I am from the Escolme family.  My mother Evelyn Tyldesley who was born in Dalton worked for a farmer, Seriah Butler, when she was about 13 circa 1920 and looked after ...Read more

A memory of Yealand Conyers by Avril Grounds

I was born in 1946 lived in Lifton until I got married in 1971. I lived in Fore St next door lived Mr Brown he used to repair shoes in his little shed in the garden I used to watch him working. just a few doors away Bill Keast he was ...Read more

A memory of Lifton by Brian Keighley

I was born in 1931. During the war I spent about 1 year in Walkford, at the home of a great aunt in the village of Walkford. The maternal ancestry of my family is in Walkford. My great aunt had a house on I guess the Ringwood road. ...Read more

A memory of Walkford in 1943 by Patricia Hardwicke

I remember Banks with bittersweet memories. I lived on Gravel Lane,just outside the village,on Gravel Lane ,there was another girl we went to school with called Carole McCabe,and we played with Janet and Edna who lived on the ...Read more

A memory of Banks by Catherine Conley

When I was about 6-7 years old we lived in Lansdowne Grove ( 1 mile approx) and Crow Mills was a favorite place to come and fish for minnows and frog spawn. The summers seemed endless and jam jars were a precious item to ...Read more

A memory of South Wigston in 1940 by Richard Child

We moved to Hungerford in 1987 just two months before Michael Ryan shot 14 people. See that white house way down on the left with one window in the top, well I lived in the house just after that. You can't see it very well but ...Read more

A memory of Hungerford in 1987 by Donald Macdonald

I lived here as a child of nine in 1950-1. We rented it from the owner, the delightful Sylvia Townsend Warner, author, who lived there with her partner, Valentine Ackland. The house literally stands with one ...Read more

A memory of Maiden Newton in 1950 by Richard Leveson

Other than as a name on a map, I hadn't a clue about Gosport before joining the Royal Navy in 1949 and becoming a Portsmouth rating. My Visual Signals training had taken place, firstly, at Cookham Camp near Chatham and, latterly, ...Read more

A memory of Gosport in 1950 by Pauline Bullen

My memories of Hatch End are all of a very happy childhood with my Mum and Dad who worked at Euston, and used to come whistling home from the railway station every night. We lived on Oxhey Lane, a service road and I can just recall the ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1959 by Janice Whitlock